Seattle Gay Area Gui - Capol Hill │ misterb&b

Contents:

• SEATTLE GAY DISTRICT: CAPOL HILL
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SEATTLE
• SEATTLE NEXT GAY GHETTO
• SEATTLE GAY SHOPS
• MOVG TO LGBTQ SEATTLE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SEATTLE
• GAY VILLAGE WT SEATTLE
• THE GAYBORHOOD LIST
• GAY MONTREAL
• GAY VILLAGE

SEATTLE GAY DISTRICT: CAPOL HILL

Jt east of downtown, the Capol Hill neighborhood has long been the cy’s gay epicenter, wh rabow-pated crosswalks and many ways to dive to the LGBTQ+ scene. Jt east of downtown, Capol Hill has long been the Seattle’s gay epicenter and home to artists, hipsters, stunts and now-famo micians, not to mentn some of the bt rtrants, bars, ffee shops, live mic venu and public parks. Non-prof social/charable anizatn whose purpose is to provi funds and servic to other non-profs wh the gay and lbian muny of Seattle and Kg County Washgton.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS SEATTLE

Found 1994, NWLGHMP is an anizatn which rearch, terprets and munit the history of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people the Pacific Northwt for the purpos of study, tn and enjoyment. Boastg the send largt LGBTQ populatn the Uned Stat after San Francis, as no surprise that there is a very dynamic and lively gay area Seattle. Most of the Seattle gay scene n be found around Capol Hill, which is a quat, hilltop neighborhood that overlooks the cy’s downtown.

While the area is nsirably large, you n fd the majory of gay life on Pe and Pike Streets, which are spillg wh plenty of gay bars, rtrants, and clubs.

SEATTLE NEXT GAY GHETTO

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When out gay men and lbians moved to ndown urban neighborhoods the late '60s and early '70s, they rented apartments no one else wanted, started bs on blocks where no one else thought bs uld thrive, and had sex unr bh that no one else wanted to have sex unr.

SEATTLE GAY SHOPS

Neighborhoods like New York's East Village, San Francis's Castro, Chigo's Lake View, and Seattle's Capol Hill slowly gentrified, wh hors of gays and lbians makg the once dicey neighborhoods safe for florists, rd shops, and sex clubs. The clost most gays and lbians ever e to fdg a promised land is movg to the Gay Ghetto -- an urban neighborhood that is populated by, and reasonably tolerat, a large number of queers. For years, first-wave gay ghettos were kept lively and relevant by a nstant stream of young queer migrants arrivg om upstate New York, downstate Illois, ral California, and eastern Washgton.

MOVG TO LGBTQ SEATTLE? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

And for years, young queers movg to the gay ghettos uld rely on three thgs: cheap apartments, low-payg retail jobs, and lots of other young queers wh cheap apartments and low-payg retail jobs wh whom they uld swap sp and var sexually transmted diseas. The social ntract that kept young queer migrants pourg to gay ghettos has been ptured; while the average Capol Hill apartment rented for $449 1990, go for $723 now. Gay ghettos are slowly turng to gay retirement muni, where the only queers who n afford to live the East Village or on Capol Hill are the on who bought apartments and ho 20 years ago when they were still relatively cheap.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS SEATTLE

Wh young queers forced to look elsewhere for hog, first-wave gay ghettos are on the cle, sapped of the energy and sex appeal of queer youngsters.

All over the Uned Stat, young gays and lbians priced out of tablished gay ghettos are lonizg new neighborhoods, seekg out cheap rents and openg trendy rtrants. While 's clear that Seattle's young queers are turng away om Capol Hill, 's not clear which Seattle neighborhood will emerge as Seattle's next big gay ghetto.

In orr to facilate the mass migratn of Seattle's low-e and recently arrived queer migrants, we sent three wrers to three potential new gay ghettos.

GAY VILLAGE WT SEATTLE

In asssg the fns of var neighborhoods for gay-ghettoizatns, we looked at four creria: Average rent for a stud apartment, potential for a gay dance club, potential public sex environment, and average age of current rints (on the theory that the olr the average rints, the faster the apartment turnover). WEST SEATTLE Average Rent for Stud Apartment: $569 Potential Gay Dance Palace: Any empty warehoe on Wt Margal Way Potential Public Sex Environment: Lln Park Average Age of Rints: 38 s Seattle's old-guard queers tire of battlg wannab and lossal monthly rents, they are abandong the once sacred Hill by the fistful. An abundance of factors, cludg accsibily, shoppg, nightlife, reasonable rent, and at least one public park wh foliage ample enough to nceal midnight discretn all terme a neighborhood's potential as a gay ghetto.

THE GAYBORHOOD LIST

First is important to intify the number of public schools, dayre facili, nursg hom, muny centers, church, and siar tablishments that are not only of posively no e to queer people, but may even reprent a tangible threat to attag the cril mass necsary to create a tly gay ghetto. One of the most fundamental elements of any te gay ghetto is the prence of at least one primarily gay waterg hole and/or dance spot. The ever-tougheng dnk drivg laws and the general repulsivens of public transportatn would make livg Wt Seattle and partyg at Seattle's current gay hotspots -- now exclively Capol Hill and downtown -- nearly impossible.

Although none are exclively gay (yet), Wt Seattle is home to a few funky and potentially queer bars and loung that are ripe for vasn: the Pagoda Room (spicly remiscent of the Hill's Ja Pagoda) and the Lizzard Lounge among them.

GAY MONTREAL

"The Junctn, " Wt Seattle's hoppg and chic bs district, provis many tablishments dispensable to gay life: mic, book, and retail stor, hairdrsers, galleri, naturopathic physicians and acupuncturists for the immune-impaired, and f. Throw a Rudy's Barber Shop, a ffee shop, and a few artsy typ, and Wt Seattle would have the urban-y chic that gays love so much.

I ntacted several of what might be nsired gay-iendly bs Wt Seattle and asked how they would rpond should their neighborhood sudnly turn pk.

GAY VILLAGE

A young woman who intified herself as Kenlee (a non-tradnal name -- a good sign) answered the phone and gave the followg rponse, "I don't get the whole gay thg, really, but que a few of my iends are gay and they are the olt people I know. -- Adrian Ryan COLUMBIA CITY Average Rent for Stud Apartment: $408 Potential Gay Dance Club: Cy Electric Potential Public Sex Environment: The shbbery ont of Columbia Funeral Home Average Age of Rints: 32 he ia of a gay neighborhood passed om stunng to obv as I moved om Boston's Northampton, to D.